MEGAN HILDEBRANDT
EDUCATION
MFA University of South Florida, School of Art & Art History 2012
BFA University of Michigan, Stamps School of Art & Design 2006
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025 Local Imprints: Stories of People and Place, Downtown Austin Alliance Foundation, Austin TX (with Malti B. Lee)
2024 Hysterical Mothers, Pearl Conard Gallery at Ohio State University, Mansfield OH (with Sara Vanderbeek)
2023 Repeated Visions, Good Luck Have Fun Gallery, Austin TX (with Peter Abrami)
2023 Megan Hildebrandt, ICOSA Gallery, Austin TX
2022 The Load We Carry, Nomad Art Projects at Bailey Contemporary Arts, Pompano Beach FL
2019 Growth Spurts, Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing MI
2018 Mine Time Is Yours, Old Art Building, Leland MI
2018 Recent Works: Megan Hildebrandt, Corson Auditorium, Interlochen MI
2017 Megan Hildebrandt, Present Place, Chicago IL
2016 Megan Hildebrandt, The Casey Cowell Family Cancer Center, Traverse City MI
Repeat That Again, Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Saugatuck MI
One New Day, Michigan Institute of Contemporary Art, Lansing MI
2015 Megan Hildebrandt, LIVESTRONG FOUNDATION, Austin TX
Daily Disappearance, back house Gallery, Ann Arbor MI
2014 Do Your Steps, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore MD
2013 Counting Radiation, Vincent Stabile Research Center, Tampa FL
2012 Counting Radiation: Time as Landscape, Wardenclyffe Gallery, Austin TX
Counting Radiation, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa FL
2011 Tunnel Visions, The Front Gallery, New Orleans LA
2009 The Rumors Are True, Creative Alliance, Baltimore MD (with Christine Sajecki)
How We Dwell, 2625 St. Paul Street, Baltimore MD
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Lean on Me: Everyday Acts of Humanity, Rockaway Artists Alliance, Rockaway Point NY
Artist, Mother, Proud & Serious VOL III, Women Art United
2024 The Diversity of Women's Voices, Ceres Gallery, New York NY
HOT BOD, Basket Books & Art, Houston TX
Texas Vignette Art Fair, Dallas TX
Flora and Fauna, Patty McMullen-Mikles Art Gallery, Clarkdale AZ
Soon Moon, Department of Art and Art History- UT Austin, Austin TX
2023 Time Constraints, Indiana University, Kokomo IN
Mass Gallery, Austin TX
Open Call, McLennon Pen Co. Gallery, Austin TX
Assemblage, University of Houston-Clear Lake, Houston TX
Speak Up, National Alliance on Mental Illness Annual Conference, Austin TX
2022 Bake Sale, Great Outdoors Gallery, Austin TX
All In The Family, lockh.art house, Lockhart TX
People, Gallerium Art Projects (virtual)
2021 Rising Tide, Kallinen Art Gallery, Houston TX
Welcome, B-space art house, New Braunfels TX
Heatwave, dodomu Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Collective Health, Collar Works, Troy NY
Yesterday, Today, Everyday; Art Mums United (virtual)
Drawing Discourse, University of North Carolina, Asheville NC
Family Matters, Root Division, San Francisco CA
2020 In My Head, In My Body, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria VA
Painting At Night, Artist Mother Podcast Exhibition
Shown from Afar: Art during the Pandemic, Womenswork.Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie NY
Austin Justice Coalition Benefit Auction, Dorf Gallery, Austin TX
2019 Extended Self: Transformations and Connections, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL
Ritualisms, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria VA
Texas Toast, Co-Lab Projects, Austin TX
Child's Play, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles MO
2018 Labors: An Exhibition Exploring the Complexities of Motherhood, Ohio State University Pearl
Conard Gallery, Mansfield OH
Suspend, Adams State University, Alamosa CO
RideShare Gallery, Southbend IN
Unibrow Collective Zine Fest, Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento C
A Line With Intent, ARC Gallery, Chicago IL
Moving Through the Unimaginable, Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Saugatuck MI
2017 Quickening, Nightingale Cinema, Chicago IL
Cornered, WonderRoot, Atlanta GA
What's Important, Gordon Breuner Gallery, Interlochen MI
Living Mark, Verum Ultimum, Portland OR
#exstrange, Project Anywhere
95th Annual All Media Exhibition, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor MI
Pattern Recognition, Woskob Family Gallery, State College PA
DISCO BALL, Creative Alliance at the Patterson, Baltimore MD
Hygge, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Traverse City MI
Parsing, Howard County Arts Council, Ellicott City MD
2016 Pinellas County Film Commission & Creative Pinellas Festival Exhibition,
Gulf Coast Museum of Art, St. Petersburg, FL
Simplicity, Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande OR
Interrupted, The Coburn Gallery, Ashland OH
PAPERWORK, Jordan Faye Contemporary, Baltimore MD
How Long Is This Going To Take? Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen MI
Alchemic Ground, Sleeth Gallery, Buckhannon WV
MoleSkin Mailer Collaboration, Tempus Projects, Tampa FL
Resident Reunion Exhibition, Creative Alliance, Baltimore MD
2015 The Writing on the Wall, The Painting Center, New York NY
Prepare Now, The Front Gallery, New Orleans LA
Faculty Exhibition, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen MI
Time|Place, Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing MI
Capelli d’Angeli Exhibition, Gallery on the Green, Canton CT
Puzzles, Riddles, and Enigmas, Stamps School of Art & Design, Ann Arbor MI
Inquiry, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas, Austin TX
FICSplice, The Mom Gallery, Austin TX
2014 New American Paintings- West, Issue #114
Over the Edge: Paperworks Unbound, WAH Center, Brooklyn NY
X Marks The Spot, Art Science Gallery, Austin TX
Practical Feminism, Radiator Gallery, Queens NY
Unintended Consequences, Stamps School of Art & Design, Ann Arbor MI
Spatial Disruption, Morean Art Center, St. Petersburg FL
McNeese Works on Paper Exhibition, Abercrombie Gallery, Lake Charles LA
Colbert Bump, Sleeth Gallery, Buckhannon WV
2013 SKETCHBOOK, School 33, Baltimore MD
EyeSplice: Traces, HEREarts, New York NY
The 2013 People's Gallery, Austin City Hall, Austin TX
Transition, Stamps School of Art & Design, Ann Arbor MI
Kiss Me Deadly, Creative Alliance, Baltimore MD
2012 What Can't Be Cured Must Be Endured, Paul Robeson Gallery, Newark NJ
Folly Into Frenzy, Openings Collective, New York NY
HARVST Project, Pyper Paul + Kenney, Tampa FL
17 Tips Project, Sleeth Gallery, Buckhannon WV
Quantified Self, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor MI
Now On Paper, The Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, New York NY
Unstable Natures, Latitude 53, Edmonton, Alberta Canada
Sand in the Vacuum, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa FL
Poacolypse: Apocalypse, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit MI
Size Matters, Stamps School of Art & Design, Ann Arbor MI
Wonderland, Creative Alliance, Baltimore MD
A Walk In My Shoes, Columbia Art Center, Columbia MD
36th Annual Juried Student Exhibition, Oliver Gallery, Tampa FL
2011 Get Real, Oliver Gallery, Tampa FL
Unreliable Narrators, Creative Alliance, Baltimore MD
Mine Yours, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor MI
Close Encounters, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams MA
Inner and Outer Landscape, University of North Carolina, Pembroke NC
10 Cameras Project, Art Space, Scottsdale AZ
Resident Show, Estrella Gallery, Truth or Consequences NM
Scumble and Flow, Oliver Gallery, Tampa FL
2010 Miami Independent Thinkers 2010 Art Basel Fair, Miami FL
Standing Heat, The Front Gallery, New Orleans LA
Live Forever, Concertina Gallery, Chicago IL
The Rumors Are True, Creative Alliance, Baltimore M
Sign Language, Whole Gallery, Baltimore MD
Rancho Regattas 2010, Florida Maritime Museum at Cortez, Cortez FL
The Artist's Guide to the L.A. Galaxy, W. LA College Gallery, Culver City CA
Shut Your Mouth When You're Talking To Me, Oliver Gallery, Tampa FL
Get Real, Oliver Gallery, Tampa FL
2009 Beyond the Border, International Contemporary Art Fair, San Diego CA
Without Borders: Conjunction, University of Maine, Orono ME
PARADOX NOW! Arlington Arts Center, Arlington VA
MFAO Exhibition, Centre Gallery, Tampa FL
Local Color, Holtzman Gallery at Towson University, Towson MD
Stars and Stripes: Pride and Hope, Smith Center, Washington DC
To The Teeth, Amalie Rothschild Gallery, Baltimore MD
2008 The World’s Smallest Art Fair, Anna Kustera Gallery, New York NY
New American Paintings, Issue # 75, Mid-Atlantic Region
Shall We Begin? IAO Projects, Salt Lake City UT
The Seven Deadly Sins, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore MD
Elbow Grease, Stamps School of Art & Design, Ann Arbor MI
Fantasies and Realities, Towson Arts Collective, Baltimore MD
Stars and Stripes: Pride or Despair, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore MD
Transmodern Festival, Baltimore MD
Stuttering, Carroll Mansion, Baltimore MD
My ____ Other, Creative Alliance at the Patterson, Baltimore MD
Touching Warms the Art, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland OR
Between Heaven and Earth, The College of New Jersey, Ewing NJ
2007 WayTaking, Creative Alliance at the Patterson, Baltimore MD
National/International, Towson Arts Collective, Towson MD
Passions, Washington School of Photography, Bethesda MD
It’s Photography II, Art League of Northern California, Novato CA
2006 Ann Allen, Mark(s) The Feminist Art Project Quarterly Online Journal
Inside/Outside, Metropolitan Center For The Visual Arts, Gaithersburg MI
Thinking and Believing, Michigan Public Television, Flint MI
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Ham? Duderstadt Center, Ann Arbor MI
D’un Modele Standard, All About Furniture, Ann Arbor MI
INVITED LECTURES AND SYMPOSIUMS
2024 Post-Pandemic Placemaking in Foundations Programs, SECAC Conference, Atlanta GA
2024 Seeing The Patient, 112th Annual College Art Association Conference, Chicago IL
2024 Hysterical Mothers: Hildebrandt and Vanderbeek in Conversation, Ohio State University, Mansfield OH
2024 Visiting Artist Lecture, Department of Art and Design, Kutztown University, Kutztown PA
2023 Room for Everyone: Opening Doors for Artist-Parents and Their Families, Universities Art Association of Canada Conference,
Banff, CA
2023 Mother/Artists: A Round table of Experiments, Advocacy, and Action; Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference,
Austin TX
2023 Motherhood, Making and Mental Health (Moderator), The Contemporary Austin, Austin TX
2023 Drawing Through It All: Megan Hildebrandt, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha NE
2022 Convening Cancer and Artistic Communities for Storytelling: Results in Shared Vulnerability and Enhanced Empathy, World
Cancer Congress, Geneva, Switzerland
2022 Examining the Aesthetics of Health Framework, Health Humanities Consortium: Space of/for Health Humanities, Virtual
Conference.
2022 Cancer Storytelling and Enhancing Empathy in Artists, SXSW EDU, Austin TX
2022 Cancer Storytelling and Enhancing Empathy in Artists, 10th International Health Humanities Consortium, Penn State University
College of Medicine, Hershey PA
2021 Aesthetics of Health: Arts Pedagogy Meets Cancer Community Engagement, Putting Care at the Center Conference,
National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs, Camden NJ
2021 Presenter, Dell Medical School Innovation in Education Symposium, Austin TX
2021 Healing/Arts Workshop with Megan Hildebrandt and Robin Richardson, Virtual Healing Arts Symposium
2020 Visiting Artist Lecture, Curry College- Boston MA
2020 Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Nebraska- Omaha NE
2020 Visiting Scholar Lecture, Johns Hopkins University- Baltimore MD
2019 Visiting Artist Lecture, Gettysburg College- Gettysburg PA
2018 The Need to Develop Socially Engaged Artists: Reimagining Your Curricular Goals and Role in the Community, Arts Schools
Network Conference, Los Angeles CA
2017 The Power of Outreach: Shaping the Next Generation of Empathic, Innovative Artists and Thinkers, Arts Schools Network
Conference, Minneapolis MN
Aesthetics of Health, University of Texas McCombs School of Business Healthcare Symposium, Austin TX
2016 Teaching Art in a Medical Setting, Michigan Art Educators Association, Traverse City MI
Megan Hildebrandt, The Cowell Family Cancer Center, Traverse City MI
2015 The Possibilities of a Patchwork Existence: Artist and Educator Interactive Webinar, National Art Education Association
Visiting Artist Lecture, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen MI
Being Present: Illness Narrative, The Art of Witnessing, and a Return to Bedside Manner,
University of Texas McCombs School of Business Healthcare Symposium, Austin TX
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Nebraska- Omaha NE
Visiting Artist Lecture, Southern Arkansas University- Magnolia AR
2013 Witnessing Cancer: Communicating Illness through Visual Art and Narrative
Symposium, Moffitt Cancer Center- Tampa FL
2012 Resident Artist Talk, Santa Fe Art Institute- Santa Fe NM
Visiting Fellow Talk, VCCA- Amherst VA
Visiting Artist Lecture, Moffitt Cancer Center- Tampa FL
Artist Lecture, Carrollwood Cultural Center- Tampa FL
Visiting Artist Talk, National League of American Pen Women- Tampa FL
2011 Thinking with Hannah Wilke's IntraVenus Tapes, USF CAM- Tampa FL
Megan Hildebrandt, USF School of Medicine- Tampa FL
Visiting Artist Talk: Tunnel Visions, The Front Gallery- New Orleans LA
Visiting Artist Talk: Tunnel Visions, Creative Alliance- Baltimore MD
2010 V5 Pecha Kucha, The Trolley Barn, Tampa FL
2009 Resident Artist Talk, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT
Visiting Artist Talk: Boom Bust Bang! Centrum Foundation, Port Townsend WA
Resident Artist Talk: The Rumors Are True, Creative Alliance, Baltimore MD
RESIDENCIES, AWARDS AND GRANTS
2025 Artist in Residency Program at Downtown Austin, Austin TX
2024 Douglas J. Dempster Faculty Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, TX
Dads’ Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, TX
Texas Orange Jackets Tenet Scholarship Award, University of Texas at Austin, TX
2021 University of Texas Tower Award for Outstanding Community-Based Learning Course, Austin TX
2020 Department of Art and Art History Distinguished Teaching Award
Fellowship Award, The Op-Ed Project Public Voices Program, Austin TX
Fine Arts Curriculum Development Grant, University of Texas at Austin
ACT: Art and Art History First-Year Core Diversity and Curriculum Decolonization Grant, UT Austin
2018 Ann Hall Artist-in-Residence, Leland MI
National Endowment for the Art ARTWORKS Grant Recipient
2015 Capelli d'Angeli Foundation Artist Grant Award
2014 McNeese University Works on Paper Purchase Award
2012 Fellowship Award, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst VA
Residency Award, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe NM
2011 Residency Award, Starry Night, Truth or Consequences NM
Grant Recipient, The Gobioff Foundation
2009 Finalist, Marshall Scholarship Award
Residency Award, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT
Residency Award, Centrum Foundation, Port Townsend WA
2007 Resident Artist Award, Creative Alliance at the Patterson Theater, Baltimore MD
Bob and Maggie Allesee Fellowship Recipient Award, Artrain USA, Ann Arbor MI
PUBLICATIONS
2025 Hildebrandt, Megan. The Ambassadors, Self-Published Risograph Artist Book.
2024 Hildebrandt, Megan. "Our Masks." American Medical Association Journal of Ethics- Peace in Health Care, November.
2024 Hildebrandt, Megan. "Remembering Your Face When I Drop You Off At School." The Linden Review, University of Nebraska at
Omaha, Spring Edition.
2022 Hildebrandt, Megan; Richardson, Robin; Scanlon, Joy. "Health and Arts Activism in the Classroom and Clinic." American Medical
Association Journal of Ethics- Arts Based Research Special Issue, July 2022.
2021 Hildebrandt, Megan. “Creativity and Resilience in Art Students During COVID-19.” Art Education, The Journal of the National Art
Education Association. January 2021.
2020 Hildebrandt, Megan. "Households in Quarantine, Installments I-III." July 4, 11, 18, 2020; Glasstire.
2014 Hildebrandt, Megan and Megan Voeller. "Thinking with Art, or What Happens When a Critic Sees You Lose Your Hair."
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 3, no. 2.
2012 Hildebrandt, Megan. Tunnel Visions. Self-Published Artist Book.
COLLECTIONS
The Pandemic Project, Museum of the Southwest, Midland Texas
Austin History Center, Austin TX
Sheridan Chambers, The Denim Group. San Antonio TX
McNeese University, Lake Charles LA
Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa FL
William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak MI
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore MD
New College, Sarasota FL
The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, Sante Fe NM
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Alistair Manliguez, “Compassion and Connection: Professor’s Cancer Diagnosis as Graduate Student Informs Her Work With First-Year Students”, Texas Connect, Spring 2025.
Timothy Hoff, American Journal of Ethics Podcast, "Ethics Talk", Spring 2024.
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, "Megan Hildebrandt in Austin Texas", The Interior Beauty Salon, 2024.
Chuck Benya, Lindsey Koch, Melinda Ronayne, Department of Leadership and Learning in Organizations at Vanderbilt University, “Transformative Partnerships: The Impact of Guided Civic Engagement on Student Self- Efficacy”, December 8th, 2023
Dixie Stanforth and Katie Dawson, The Aesthetics of Health with Megan Hildebrandt, The Other Side of Campus Podcast, July 3, 2022.
Aaron Henkin, "A Stone Cold Mystery", The Maryland Curiosity Podcast, WYPR Baltimore, Dec 6, 2021.
Mark Gilbert, University of Nebraska at Omaha Podcast "Artist-to-Artist: Intersections of Art and Health," December 2020.
Michelle Hagewood, Centrum Foundation Podcast, "Megan Hildebrandt" August 2020.
Audrey McGlinchy, KUT Austin Public Radio, “As COVID-19 Continues To Spread, The Austin History Center Wants Your Diary” APRIL 22, 2020.
Amy Hughes Braden and Leslie Holt, Project For Empty Space, Maternal Journal #2, November, 2019.
Sarah Irvin, Artist Parent Index: "Megan Hildebrandt's Animations are Wonderful Reflections on Everyday Moments, Repetition and Routine." August 13, 2019.
Cindy Ingram, Art Class Curator Podcast, Episode #3: The Aesthetics of Health with Megan Hildebrandt, May 28, 2018.
Ellen Mueller, Remixing and Drawing: Sources, Influences, and Styles, Routledge, Taylor; Francis Group. 2018.
Ross Boissoneau The Great Outreach Experiment, Northern Express Weekly, April 9, 2018.
Project Anywhere #exstrange Catalogue, Marialaura Ghidini and Rebekah Modrak curators, 2017.
Annie-Marie Oomen, Megan Hildebrandt on Women of an Uncertain Age: Healthcare. UpNorthLive Television, January 2017.
Q & A with Megan Hildebrandt on Pregnancy and Parenting After Cancer, The Lymphoma Letters, May 13, 2016.
60 wrd/min art critic: Megan Hildebrandt, Detroit MetroTimes, December 2, 2015.
Drawing Currents, Spring 2015.
New American Paintings- West, Issue #114
Sally Deskins, "Megan Hildebrandt, Artist," Les Femmes Folles, May 19, 2014.
Quincy Walters, "Megan Hildebrandt: Counting Radiation," World Observations, May 28, 2013.
Dr. Lodovico Balducci, "A Patient's Cancer Lesson," Tampa Bay Times, April 13, 2013.
Mark Schreiner, "Symposium Addresses Relationship of Illness and Art," WUSF News, March 28, 2013.
Brandi Hollis, "Emotional Tally," University of South Florida News, October 17, 2012.
Anonda Bell, “Musings on the Heaviness and Vexation of Spirit” in What Cannot Be Cured Must Be Endured Exhibition Catalogue, Paul Robeson Galleries, September 2012.
Frank Sabatte, "Frenzy into Folly Artist Interview: Megan Hildebrandt," Openings Collective Channel, August 20, 2012.
Sandy Frye, "Culture Vultures: Megan Hildebrandt," Tampa Bay Community Network, May 2, 2012.
Jennifer Andrews, "USF MFA Student Exhibition 2012: Megan Hildebrandt," USF Contemporary Art Museum Blog, April 30, 2012.
Margarita Abramova, "USF Graduate Paints Her Battle With Hodgkin's Lymphoma," The Digital Bullpen, November 28, 2011.
Cara Ober, "Q & A with Megan Hildebrandt," Urbanite Baltimore Ezine, November 8, 2011.
Matthew Zachary, "The Stupid Cancer Show," I'm Too Young For This Foundation and Livestrong Foundation, September 26, 2011.
“Megan Hildebrandt Talks Art, Humor, and Cancer at 25” Splinter Generation, February, 2011.
Michael O’Sullivan, “Blurring the Line Between Art and Truth” Washington Post, August 2, 2009.
Emily Campbell and Jessica Novak, “Dig Into A Friend’s Closet” The Baltimore Examiner, February 5, 2009.
Edward Gunts, “Creative Alliance Art Show Depicts East Baltimore” The Baltimore Sun, January 22, 2009.
Jessica Novak, “The Rumors Are True” The Baltimore Examiner, January 19, 2009.
Edward Gunts, “Baltimore Art Museums, Galleries Launch New Initiatives” The Baltimore Sun, January 15, 2009.
Katherine Gorman and Sheila Kast, “Do Your Steps!”, Maryland Morning on NPR Affiliate Station WYPR, November 25, 2008.
Lionel Foster, “Scrubs” Urbanite Baltimore Magazine, Issue #51, September, 2008.
Chris Rebbert, “Encounter: Megan Hildebrandt” Urbanitebalto Channel, August 28, 2008.
New American Paintings, Issue #75, Mid-Atlantic Region, April/May 2008.
APPOINTMENTS
2021-Present
Associate Chair
Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas
Austin TX
2020-Present
Director, First Year CORE Program
Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas
Austin TX
2019-Present
Associate Professor of Practice
Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas
Austin TX
2015-2019
Faculty of Painting, Digital Media and Community Engagement
Visual Arts Department, Interlochen Arts Academy
Interlochen MI
2013-2015
Lecturer, 2D Design and Drawing
Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas
Austin TX
2009-2012
Instructor, Drawing, Painting and Digital Media
School of Art and Art History, University of South Florida
Tampa FL